Reproduction in plants

Pollination

Animals

Pollen grains are usually sticky so as to stick onto the insect's body

Petals must be colourful, big, bright, have a pleasant smell and nectar

Insects/ small animals

Wind

Small and dull petals, no sweet smell nor nectar

Feathery stigmas

Fertlisation

Formation of fruit and seeds

1) Petals will wither and drop off

2) Ovary swollens and develops into a fruit

Meeting of the male reproductive cell and the female reproductive cell.

Step 1: Upon landing on the stigma, each pollen grain produces a tube that grows down the style to the ovules in the ovary.

Step 2: When the pollen tube reaches the ovule, fertilisation takes place.

Dispersal

Water

Waterproof covering/Fibrous husk

Splitting

Ripen, dry up and split open

Wind

Dry and light/ Wing-like structures or hairs

Animals

Juicy or frangrant

Germination

Only possible if the seed lands in a place with sufficient air, water and the right temperature.

Means to sprout or grow

Stigma

Captures the pollen

Style

Supports the stigma

Ovary

Responsible for housing the eggs

Filament

Supports the anther

Anther

Storing and producing pollen

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